The Ohio State women’s basketball team discovered that rock bottom apparently has a lower level.

Wisconsin sent the Buckeyes (11-8, 1-5) to their eighth consecutive Big Ten road defeat with a 68-49 thrashing that smelled of sulfur yesterday afternoon at the Kohl Center.

The victory ended a six-game losing streak for the Badgers (9-10, 1-5) and featured total domination by the home team, which outscored the visitors 43-20 in the second half.

Morgan Paige led Wisconsin with 28 points. Jacki Gulczynski got all 14 of her points after the break to help the Badgers also end a 20-game losing streak to Ohio State.

The poor performance by the Buckeyes, who now are tied for last place with Wisconsin, defied history for Ohio State coach Jim Foster.

“Without a doubt, I’ve never seen a game like this,” he said. “In the 11 years I’ve been here, I haven’t seen anything close to it.”

The Buckeyes began the game as if they had turned a corner with a 68-45 victory over Indiana on Thursday. They jumped to a 10-2 lead at the 15:45 mark of the first half before some familiar problems began to occur.

“In the first half, we were doing some pretty good things defensively and we had an opportunity to break the game open and we didn’t take it,” Foster said. “We made some careless turnovers.”

The floor errors sparked a 9-0 run by the Badgers before Ohio State pushed out to a 23-14 lead with 5:48 left in the half. More turnovers by the Buckeyes followed and a steady procession to the free throw line allowed the Badgers to stay the game.

Despite shooting 28.6 percent, Wisconsin got 15 points off 12 turnovers in the first half, hit all 10 of its free throws and trailed only 29-25 at the break.

The Buckeyes began the second half with a turnover and Paige hit a three-pointer to begin a 13-2 run by the Badgers.

“They played well,” Foster said. “They got on a roll. And the same type of problems we had in the first half happened in the second half.”

The trouble, however, went deeper than turnovers and free throws. Ohio State’s offense went silent over the second 20 minutes. The Buckeyes made just five field goals in 25 attempts, and for extended periods, no one seemed to want to take a shot.

“I’m watching video of the game now,” Foster said. “Ashley Adams is 12 feet from the basket and nobody is within 7 feet of her and she’s looking to pass. At some point, somebody’s got to want to shoot the ball.”

Leading scorer Tayler Hill played 40 minutes in her second game since coming back from an illness. She was 6 for 11 from the field with 16 points but never seemed to get on track.

Adams added 11 points and 15 rebounds, but the bench delivered only six points on two threes by freshman Cait Craft.

“Our bench players need to be more productive,” Foster said. “I can’t be any clearer than that. We had ample opportunities to get shots. You have to want to take them.”

Hill now has 1,752 points and has passed Nikita Lowry (1,746) and Lisa Cline (1,750) to move into eighth place in OSU history. Kim Jordan is next at 1,753.